Terrorist Attack in Bangkok, Iranian Involved
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Iran risks nuclear Cold War
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Iran risks nuclear Cold War
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Yes, I wouldn't expect him to say anything else. They could have interviewed a tape recorder.
Hookers and Hookas:
Amateur trio whoring together in that "family holiday paradise" called Pattaya before the botched bombing attempt:
Amateur trio whoring together in that "family holiday paradise" called Pattaya before the botched bombing attempt:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1202/S ... -women.htmAlleged Iranian Bombers Cavorted With Thai Women at Beach Resort
By Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police hunted on Friday (Feb. 17) for a fifth alleged terrorist who may have taught three arrested Iranians how to bomb Israeli diplomats in Bangkok, and released a photo showing the trio celebrating with Thai girls at a sleazy beach resort before bungling their plot
"The additional suspect is a 52-year-old Iranian man, Nikkhahfard Javad, who was seen leaving the house hours before the blast," said Bangkok Metropolitan Police Deputy Commander Anuchai Lekbumrung on Friday (Feb. 17), referring to the Iranians' bomb-packed house which exploded on Tuesday (Feb. 14), apparently unintentionally.
Thai media said police suspected Mr. Javad was a bomb-making instructor, who allegedly helped the three younger Iranian men build so-called "magnet bombs" with C-4 explosives which could be stuck on the exterior of vehicles belonging to Israeli embassy personnel in Bangkok, but the plot failed.
A photograph published on Friday (Feb. 17) identified Mr. Javad as a stocky, graying, slightly balding man with a moustache and close-cropped beard arriving at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
He was standing at the airport's desk where arriving passengers' passports are stamped, and was facing toward a mounted digital camera which photographs all incoming people.
A handful of foreign men and women can be seen waiting in line behind the Iranian, amid the airport arrival hall's distinctive, modern architecture.
Police said a sixth possible suspect may also be involved, but were unable to provide details except to announce that an unidentified foreign man was seen visiting the others in Bangkok at a rented house.
Another published photograph, however, showed three other Iranian men, before they were arrested, enjoying themselves with Thai girls in the beach resort of Pattaya, 45 miles (70 kilometers) southeast of Bangkok.
Internationally notorious because of its large population of inexpensive prostitutes, Pattaya has attracted sex tourists, foreign criminals and others who have exploited its lax ways for decades.
"As one of Thailand's major tourist spots, Pattaya could be a 'soft target' for terrorists," the American Embassy in Bangkok said in a confidential 2005 cable headlined, "Pattaya: Thailand's Extreme City" and "A Prime Terrorist Target?" which was released by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks last year.
"There is the large number of foreigners, including many from the Middle East and other areas of concern, making it easy for would-be terrorists to blend into the crowds," the U.S. embassy cable said.
"Pattaya has been a safe place for members of terror groups traveling in the region to shelter temporarily," according to the cable.
In the photo, the three Iranian men -- Saeid Moradi, Mohammad Kharzei, and Masoud Sedaghatzadeh -- appear relaxed on a sofa in a Middle Eastern restaurant alongside their female escorts, while enjoying beer and other drinks, plus three ornate hookah pipes provided by the restaurant.
Police said the photo was recovered in Pattaya from the mobile phone of one of the women, nicknamed Nan, who was Mr. Kharzei's escort.
In the picture, two women appear to be snuggling Mr. Sedaghatzadeh and 42-year-old Mr. Kharzei, while Mr. Moradi, 28, waits for his escort to take the photo using Nan's phone.
According to a published scan of his passport, Mr. Sedaghatzadeh's 31st birthday was on Feb. 12, but police did not announce the photo's date.
The three men stayed in Pattaya from Feb. 8 to 13, where they met the three Thai women who agreed to accompany them for an extended time to local restaurants, bars and for other entertainment, police said.
Nan said she went to Mr. Kharzei's hotel room where he told her not to look in his closet, police said.
"What we got from Ms. Nan is circumstantial evidence that helps confirm to us that they were here together in Pattaya," Police Lt. Col. Thawatchai Nongbua told reporters.
"National Police Chief, Priewpan Damapong, said police took Ms. Nan to the Immigration Bureau in Bangkok, to make Mr. Kharzei feel more at ease," the Bangkok Post reported on Friday (Feb. 17).
"Earlier, the suspect had showed signs of stress and refused to eat. After he met Ms. Nan, he appeared more relaxed and agreed to eat some food, Police Gen. Priewpan said," the paper reported.
On Tuesday (Feb. 14), the day after the Iranians left Pattaya, Mr. Moradi was arrested in Bangkok when he threw a grenade-like bomb at police which bounced back at him, destroying both his legs and injuring three Thai pedestrians.
Mr. Moradi spent Friday (Feb. 17) recovering in a Bangkok hospital where police hope to question him.
Police had been pursuing Mr. Moradi after he panicked and hurled a grenade-like device at a taxi which refused to give him a ride. That explosion damaged the vehicle and injured the driver.
Minutes earlier, Mr. Moradi and the two other Iranians fled their nearby rented house where they had stashed C-4 explosives, several magnets, hollowed-out radios and other bomb-making equipment, police said.
An unexplained explosion at the two-story house on Tuesday (Feb. 14) ripped off its roof and blew out the windows and doors, prompting the three Iranians to hurriedly leave on foot.
They appeared on security video images, taken by a nearby camera, which showed them carrying backpacks and walking away.
Mr. Kharzei was arrested hours later at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport trying to fly to neighboring Malaysia.
Mr. Sedaghatzadeh successfully boarded a departing flight at the airport on Tuesday (Feb. 14), but was arrested on Wednesday (Feb. 15) after arriving in Malaysia where he was being held, pending possible extradition to Thailand.
An Iranian woman identified as Rohani Leila, 32, allegedly rented the house where the other suspects stayed, but police said she most likely escaped back to Iran.
Israel's Ambassador to Thailand, Itzhak Shoham, said the bomb-making evidence discovered in the house included so-called "magnet bombs" similar to the ones used in India and the former Soviet republic of Georgia on Monday (Feb. 13).
In each of those attacks, a bomb equipped with a magnet was stuck onto an Israeli Embassy vehicle to be detonated.
The explosion in New Delhi injured an Israeli diplomat's wife and driver in her car.
But the device in Tbilisi was discovered while attached to a vehicle and defused.
Israel blamed Iran for the attacks in India, Georgia and Thailand, but Tehran denied the charges.
"We cannot say yet if it is a terrorist act, but it is similar to the assassination attempt against a diplomat in India," Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul told reporters.
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Richard S. Ehrlich is a Bangkok-based journalist from San Francisco, California, reporting news from Asia since 1978, and recipient of Columbia University's Foreign Correspondent's Award. He is a co-author of three non-fiction books about Thailand, including "Hello My Big Big Honey!" Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews; 60 Stories of Royal Lineage; and Chronicle of Thailand: Headline News Since 1946. Mr. Ehrlich also contributed to the final chapter, Ceremonies and Regalia, in a new book titled King Bhumibol Adulyadej, A Life's Work: Thailand's Monarchy in Perspective.
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Mohammad Hazaei (centre) speaks to police after he was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Tuesday night.
Bomb disposal experts work on the Bangkok house rented by three Iranian men, which was blown up on Tuesday
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Thai girls? Most of the times I've seen a 'Hadji' he was hanging onto a ladyboy...
The guy in the suit is probably playing Angry Birds...doktor_d wrote:
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cambod wrote:The guy in the suit is probably playing Angry Birds...
That pic is so small that I can't even see it.... Speaking of Angry Birds, my Scoopy still needs decals...Captain Bonez wrote:cambod wrote:The guy in the suit is probably playing Angry Birds...
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Having spent the weekend in the boonies and seeing Angry Birds on Scoopies (What's with the pink Scoopy with pictures of hearts and flowers and shit - and ghosts??), phones, T-shirts and knickers - and not one person sporting the stuff knowing what AB is, I resolved to check out what this fucking shit is. Youtubed it - now I know. Quite fun actually - takes me back to the immortal Lemmings.cambod wrote:That pic is so small that I can't even see it.... Speaking of Angry Birds, my Scoopy still needs decals...
So, having been thoroughly trounced by jm on this thread after I threw down a gauntlet and he slapped me around with it, this is the level of debate I'm sticking to now
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what are you looking at the internet with, a fuggin watch?cambod wrote:That pic is so small that I can't even see it.... Speaking of Angry Birds, my Scoopy still needs decals...Captain Bonez wrote:cambod wrote:The guy in the suit is probably playing Angry Birds...
as for your decals i already put them on the walls randomly around my house, i got the idea from my girlfriends 'style'
That animated .gif is EXACTLY how I imagine Cambod (attitude wise)Captain Bonez wrote:what are you looking at the internet with, a fuggin watch?cambod wrote:That pic is so small that I can't even see it.... Speaking of Angry Birds, my Scoopy still needs decals...Captain Bonez wrote:cambod wrote:The guy in the suit is probably playing Angry Birds...
as for your decals i already put them on the walls randomly around my house, i got the idea from my girlfriends 'style'
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Ah, that explains it! Tapatalk doesn't like .gifs very well...doktor_d wrote:That animated .gif is EXACTLY how I imagine Cambod (attitude wise)Captain Bonez wrote:what are you looking at the internet with, a fuggin watch?cambod wrote:That pic is so small that I can't even see it.... Speaking of Angry Birds, my Scoopy still needs decals...Captain Bonez wrote:cambod wrote:The guy in the suit is probably playing Angry Birds...
as for your decals i already put them on the walls randomly around my house, i got the idea from my girlfriends 'style'
Actually, that WAS me at Pontoon last night! Who took that?doktor_d wrote:
That animated .gif is EXACTLY how I imagine Cambod (attitude wise)
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seems they had more on their minds than just terrorism
and this has to rate as one of the stupidest comments recently from someone in the Thai goverment.
...On Friday, police revealed that the three Iranians had more than terror on their minds.
After flying into the resort island of Phuket on Feb. 8, the men moved to Pattaya, a seedy beach town on the Gulf of Thailand known for its abundance of go-go bars and brothels.
They stayed in Pattaya at least two nights and cavorted with several female sex workers, one of whom was brought to Bangkok to identify the suspects on Thursday, said Lt. Col. Noppon Kuldiloke, a senior immigration police investigator in southern Thailand.
They drank and played snooker together, according to one of the women quoted in Friday's Bangkok Post, which published a cellphone photo she took of the group. The image purportedly shows the three Iranians sitting around hookah water-pipes and a drink-filled table at a Middle Eastern-themed bar. Two of the men cradled women in their arms..
and this has to rate as one of the stupidest comments recently from someone in the Thai goverment.
http://www.ajc.com/travel/thailand-ques ... 55047.html"I insist Thailand is not a place for money laundering," Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Yuthasak Sasiprapa said Friday. "Thailand is only a transit place because it's easy to go through."
"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer." HST
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